“Wake Up in Love flips your thoughts about love by making Tantra practical and Self-inquiry sexy. A personal tale of universal truth, Penelope Love’s story evokes feelings we can all resonate with. Weaving poetry and prose in rhythm with the memories of youthful love and childhood scarring, she reveals, identifies, and courageously confronts those internal voices of judgement who haunt through fear and are always wrestling to control the ‘I.’ This memoir exposes these thoughts for the lies they are, as well as the great teachers they are. Her sharing teaches through example: it is inspiring, infectious and all the while gently invites us to join her in doing the same.”
Randal Lyons, Doctor of Oriental Medicine
“Any woman, any person, who has felt estranged from her body or soul… any woman who has found herself entangled in ill-suited behaviors or relationships… any woman who wants to feel free and alive in the world… will be inspired and encouraged by Penelope Love’s Wake Up in Love. From her early days as a brilliant but abused child in Long Island, New York, to her wild-and-crazy days in South Florida, to her transformational adventures in India and Costa Rica, Love shares her story in honest but witty prose and straight-to-the-heart poetry. This is not a tell-all memoir tainted by anger, regret, blame or shame. It’s not a simplistic ‘think yourself happy’ fairy tale. It’s a journey from toxicity to liberation.”
Marleen Pasch
“Each page of Wake Up in Love is a tribute not only to bravery but devotion to what is true and letting go of what is not, of pushing beyond what is known in order to find what is home, and never wavering from the spiritual path. Penelope Love shares so honestly of the hurt and the beauty, the sadness and the joy of the human experience, bringing us into some of the most private and painful places in order to gift us with the possibility of freedom.”
Daphne Cohn
“With beautiful language and rare insights, Wake Up in Love offers us a thoughtful way to be in relationship with ourselves and others. Penelope Love’s brave honesty about intimate details of her human experience is a balm for the tender moments of our own journeys. This is a refreshingly unique message unlike anything I’ve ever read before. I am grateful for this tribute to love and to a woman courageous enough to live it and share it with us.”
Carrie Schmitt
“In this page-turner, Penelope Love has devoted tremendous energy to bottling her spiritual process that expresses the heart-centered leader within. Wake Up in Love taps our inner strength to believe in ourselves and renounce that which doubts us, criticizes our choices, and denies our abilities. This invites us to draw from our reservoir of courage to stand up for what we want most in life.”
John DiCicco, PhD
“More than a memoir, this manifesto for authentic non-dual relationship is in essence a contemplation on Love after love. It traces the ambivalent conditioning associated with being raised as a girl in a conventional 1980s Irish- and Italian-Catholic family, the trauma of childhood sexual abuse, her high-achieving disposition at school, the emotional roller coaster of a budding young adult sexuality, a deeply unsatisfactory first marriage, a serendipitous encounter with her spiritual teacher and soon-to-be husband, and her eventual final liberation into Love.”
Áine Keenan
“Emulating Penelope Love’s amazing spiritual insight, is it possible? In this memoir, she gives tools to do that very thing—find your authentic Self. As she peels back layers of her thoughts, she couples it with a sometimes painful examination of her childhood, early marriage, and a year of young adult abandoned living. Through this, she meets the ‘Who’ within and the powerful grace that is her grounding force. Her skill in expressing these deep reflections with poems and prose spurs the reader to recognize, ‘I do that, too,’ or ‘I am like that.’ Hence, you come away truer to your own ‘I am’ within.”